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As one of the greatest of all emotions, gratitude can be cultivated easily and studies are starting to show that gratitude improves well-being. Your heart will open when you are aware and grateful for what you do actually have instead of what you don’t.

One of the most important attitudes to bring to your mindfulness is kindness. You can be more attentive, present and compassionate but the experience of it can be cold and hard, or you can apply some kindness to it to make it more kind, warm, caring and gentle.

True compassion isn’t based upon attachments or desires. To show compassion is to understand and recognise that you have your own limitations and flaws as does everyone else and to forgive yourself and others for their mistakes, negative thoughts and fears.

We all have the temptation to judge any experience as either good or bad because we all like feeling happiness and none of us like feeling sadness. Often your judgements are more based upon past experiences and less on what you are actually experiencing in this moment.

A reaction is something you do automatically when you experience something usually due to past conditioning. When you react you are usually at a disadvantage as you have less or no control due to you lack of a considered response.

Being mindful is purely focusing and being attentive to what you are doing or experiencing now. Life is happening continuously around us all the time yet a lot of the time we don’t even notice because we aren’t concentrating or paying attention to it.

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Mindfulness teaches us to focus on the present moment while staying aware of our own thoughts and feelings. When applied to eating, mindfulness advocates that we pay all our attention to the properties of food and the act of eating. […]

Most of us view gratitude as part of a prayer that we mumble half heartedly. “Thank your God, thank your parents, thank you teachers and thank you good fortune” we tend to mutter even as half of our mind is focused on the food on table or on the next task that we have to rush to. […]

Don’t worry, be happy, goes the song. It highlights the fact that to be happy is often seen as the epitome of our life’s achievements. All our other goals are lined up, just so we are happy some day! […]